Tag: memoirs
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August 26, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
This is my mother-in-law's story, which I promised to write. It's a story about how governments decide to start wars, and people suffer for it. In this case, the government was Japan and the Japanese . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
Written March 4, 2004
My mother’s mother (Nana) came to live with us when my father went to jail. I was seven. Nana had a house back in Peabody, but no means of support. Mum thought she could use . . . more
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September 01, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
It was late September. I had just returned from vacation when the phone call came. A friend and I had visited Seattle, then flown to Juneau to catch an 11-day cruise back to Seattle, stopping all along . . . more
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February 04, 2008 10:54 PM EST --
I have many special memories of my dad even though he died when I was twelve. He always made sure he had time to spend with my brother and me. One special memory I have is . . . more
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January 10, 2007 05:09 PM EST --
The First Day of Kindergarden
I was screaming at the top of my lungs like I was being mauled by lions on that fateful day in 1984. It was my first day of Kindergarden, and I thought . . . more
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September 12, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
Hi all!
I've been thinking about this for a few weeks now. Since we are getting all our stuff, a bit at a time, from the storage facility and de-junking so that we don't have to be paying . . . more
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September 13, 2007 08:10 AM EDT --
My first memories of coffee are as a child. When I would ask my mother for coffee (to make me feel grown up), she would make "gray coffee" — a mixture of cream and sugar with a little coffee . . . more
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September 27, 2007 08:53 AM EDT --
Today is Rose's 50th birthday. She is in Rome GA to go the Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College, where she will read one of her stories today. I thought I would take this opportunity . . . more
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December 11, 2007 04:45 PM EST --
Here it is, then, MAGI, ELIZABETH, FAITH, FRED----A GLIMPSE INTO MY KASHMIR.
(Taken from an ambitious project I started two years back)
CHAPTER 1
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March 31, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
The story revolves around politics and the intrigue that surrounds being part the behind the scenes goings on that happens when you are a known political figure. Taking place between England . . . more
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August 03, 2008 09:52 AM EDT --
Today is the last service of Unitarian Uniersalist Congregation of Marietta (UUCM.) Then most of us move on to become part of Emerson. I've been mourning on here for a month, and today I just want . . . more
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July 13, 2007 09:23 PM EDT --
My mother was an artist, so it came naturally to me.
I sketched, scribbled and dabbled in most every media throughout my life, but my favorite was acrylics. That would change.
A good friend, Zandra, . . . more
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August 22, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
I hadn’t been living in Australia long before Tim and I started looking for a house to buy. I had never owned my own home, so I found it very exciting. That is, until we started looking. I thought . . . more
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August 30, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
As my due date approached, I was both elated and exhausted. Elated because, after three miscarriages (and five years), I was finally going to have the baby I wanted so badly. Exhausted because I was the . . . more
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October 03, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
I have never used Gather as a forum for ranting, but today I am so angry, I have to let it out somewhere. The longer my mother spends in a nursing home, the more experience I have with the Medicaid system, . . . more
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September 04, 2007 03:46 AM EDT --
My family of origin ate lots of meat, and I never knew there could be a life without it until I was a teenager. One day my mother sent me to the store for groceries and on the way home the blood of a . . . more
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September 04, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
As I sit here in my living room, empty but for this one chair and small folding table at which I work, the words of that song keep running through my head. "Closing time. Time for you to go out . . . more
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September 07, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
Note: This is a companion piece to another I posted a couple of weeks ago (Home Sweet Hovel). I have spent the last two weeks trying to find good "after" pictures of the house. But with two moves . . . more
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January 22, 2008 02:11 PM EST --
NOTE: I've republished this as the first part of the series rather than including it with the first "chapter."
When my father was alive and after the Internet became . . . more
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May 26, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
Lately, I've been using my Gather points for gift certificates to buy books. It seemed appropriate to use the one I got recently to buy a book by a fellow Gather person. I could tell by her writing . . . more
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